"a single in either the U.K. or U.S. – and score to be among the weakest of his contributions to the series: ""It's the one I hate most... it just never happened for me."" Certainly the title song is notable for having suggestive lyrics, and during a TV celebration for the series' 40th anniversary, Lulu's performance was introduced with reference to its being the raunchiest of all Bond songs. For the first time, the song's end theme is not a straight reprise of the opener, as it begins with different lyrics (subsequent films followed suit with variations in arrangement, ahead"
"up through the ninth film in the series, 1974's ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". Saltzman came close to rejecting Paul McCartney's submission for the soundtrack to ""Live and Let Die"". McCartney asked producer George Martin to approach the producers about the title song. Saltzman surprised Martin by asking who they could get to sing it, suggesting only black female vocalists. Martin pointed out that if he did not take McCartney as the singer, he did not get the song. Saltzman compromised by having McCartney do the title version, and B. J. Arnau do a soul version in the ""Fillet"
"The Gun (1974 film) The Gun is a made-for-television film, of the suspense-thriller type, which ABC-TV aired as a ""Movie of the Week"" on November 13, 1974. It starred David Huffman, Ron Thompson, Richard Bright, Pepe Serna, Lee de Broux, and Stephen Elliott, and was written directly for television by Jay Benson, Richard Levinson, and William Link and directed by John Badham, then a working director of television productions. Levinson and Link were also the producers of the film. ""The Gun"" was inspiration for the song ""Golden Ring"", recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette in 1976. The song would"
"Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey song) ""Goldfinger"" is the title song from the 1964 James Bond film ""Goldfinger"". Composed by John Barry and with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, the song was performed by Shirley Bassey for the film's opening and closing title sequences, as well as the soundtrack album release. The single release of the song gave Bassey her only ""Billboard"" Hot 100 top forty hit, peaking in the Top 10 at No. 8 and No. 2 for four weeks on the Adult Contemporary chart, and in the United Kingdom the single reached No. 21. The song finished at"
"Jerry Reed Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008) was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included ""Guitar Man"", ""U.S. Male"", ""A Thing Called Love"", ""Alabama Wild Man"", ""Amos Moses"", ""When You're Hot, You're Hot"" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male), ""Ko-Ko Joe"", ""Lord, Mr. Ford"", ""East Bound and Down"" (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster ""Smokey and the Bandit"", in which Reed co-starred), ""The Bird"", and ""She Got the Goldmine (I Got"
"Machine Gun (Commodores album) Machine Gun is the debut studio album by The Commodores, released on July 22, 1974, on Motown Records. Unlike subsequent Commodores albums, ""Machine Gun"" has only funk music and is devoid of slow-paced ballads. The titular lead song has Milan Williams on clavinet, which led the Motown executive Berry Gordy to name the song ""Machine Gun"" as the clavinet work reminded him of gunfire. This track peaked at number 7 on the R&B charts, while reaching number 22 on the overall pop charts. Samples from the song were used prominently by the Beastie Boys in their"
"Bop Gun (Endangered Species) ""Bop Gun (Endangered Species)"" is a song by the funk band Parliament, the lead track on their 1977 album ""Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome"". It was released as the album's first single. The song's lead vocal is performed by Glenn Goins, his last performance on a P-Funk record. The Bop Gun is an imaginary weapon that makes whatever it shoots funky. It was used as a stage prop in Parliament's late-1970s concerts. George Clinton is depicted wielding it on the cover of the ""Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome"" album. It is also featured on the cover"
"TV program with Bob Cummings. If we had women robots, they could do anything, even sexual things, just by changing their tubes."" Not all of the songs have a sexual theme; ""Crazy Little Child"" tells the story of a youth criminal, and in ""Teenage Lament '74"", a teenager fails to find happiness even when doing everything to try to be ""hip"". ""Man With the Golden Gun"" was written with the intention of having it appear on the soundtrack of the then-upcoming James Bond film of the same name. Cooper recalled in a 2011 interview: Though credited as lead guitarist on"
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun ""You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"" is a song from the 1946 musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"", by Irving Berlin. It was originally performed by Ethel Merman. In the song, Annie Oakley sings about how a girl with talent as a sharpshooter nevertheless finds that her abilities do not help her attract men. She introduces herself with: ""I'm quick on the trigger/with targets not much bigger/than a pinpoint I'm number one."" The song is humorous in that she imagines different scenarios in which shooting a man will not make him"
"Golden Ring (song) ""Golden Ring"" is a song made famous by country music singers George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Originally released in 1976, the song was the title track to their duet album released that same year. It was a Number One hit on the ""Billboard"" country charts. The song was conceived by songwriter Bobby Braddock, who had seen a television drama about the life of a handgun. The story showed the gun changing hands several times, with a hunter, police officer, criminal and a father of a 2-year-old child all owning the gun at one point, with the consequences"
"the banner ‘’Show Of The Week: It’s Lulu’’ from Thursday 25–5 July September 1974. Broadcast Saturdays on BBC1. Produced by Stewart Morris. Theme Song: ""The Man With The Golden Gun"" From Saturday 21 January – 1 April 1978, Lulu was the regular guest on ""The Les Dawson Show"" on BBC1. Series 1 Produced by Jon Rowlands. Broadcast Saturdays on BBC1. Series 2 Produced by Mobishar Dar. Broadcast Saturdays on BBC1. Lulu (singer) Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She is internationally known, but especially by UK audiences in the 1960s. Later"
"from 1974 was Lulu's theme song for the James Bond film, ""The Man with the Golden Gun"", produced by John Barry. Another hit single featured on this album was ""Take Your Mama for a Ride"", which had been a No.37 hit in 1975. Despite these inclusions, the album failed to chart, being too late to cash in on the hits. Further singles released from the album were ""Boy Meets Girl"" and the title track, bring the total single releases to five - half the album. Tracks from the album were released on Compact disc in 1999 on a compilation with"
"The Man with the Golden Gun (film) The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy film, the ninth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness the power of the sun, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the ""Man with the Golden Gun"". The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the"
"Peter Gunn (song) ""Peter Gunn"" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name. The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album, ""The Music from Peter Gunn"", released in 1959. Mancini won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Arrangement. In his 1989 autobiography ""Did They Mention the Music?"" Mancini states: The wailing alto saxophone solo was played by big band veteran and Hollywood studio stalwart Ted Nash. Mancini arranged the first single version of the song for trumpeter Ray Anthony in 1959. Recorded"
"""Billboard"" Top Album Tracks chart, the band's only No. 1 hit in America. The spoken lines in the introduction and first verse (ending with ""the gun is still warm"") and the backing vocals in the chorus are performed by Barry Hay. Hay also sings lead on the second half of the verses. Kooymans sings the lead for the first half of the verses and the lead in the chorus. In the 1990s, the song was included on a volume of Rhino Records' ""New Wave Hits of the '80s"" series. The music video was featured on Volume One of the VHS"
"by de Paul as the B-side on her hit single ""Won't Somebody Dance With Me"") and singles ""Get Your Gun"" backed with ""Gotta Runaway"". A German version of ""Get Your Gun"" entitled ""Roter Mann"", with German lyrics by Gunther Gabriel, was recorded by Zakatek and released in 1974. De Paul introduced him to the UK through an article in the ""Daily Mirror"" entitled ""Sugar Girl's Heap Big Find"". The musicians who were featured on Zakatek's solo work were already known as some of the members of 10cc. Between 1974 and 1981, Zakatek was the lead singer with Gonzalez. They recorded"
"Shotgun (George Ezra song) ""Shotgun"" is a song by English singer-songwriter George Ezra. The song was written by Ezra and Joel Pott and produced by Cam Blackwood. It was released as a digital download on 18 May 2018, as the third single from Ezra's second studio album ""Staying at Tamara's"". The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Ezra's first number-one song in the United Kingdom, and was certified platinum in the country. In addition, it topped the ARIA Singles Chart in Australia, also becoming Ezra's first number-one there, as well as the Irish Singles Chart, New"
"Andrew Gold Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger. His works include the US Top 10 single ""Lonely Boy"" (1977), as well as ""Thank You for Being a Friend"" (1978) and the UK Top Five hit ""Never Let Her Slip Away"" (1978). He had further international chart success in the 1980s as the lead singer of Wax, a collaboration with English musician and songwriter Graham Gouldman. Gold was a multi-instrumentalist who played guitar, bass, keyboards, accordion, synthesizer, harmonica, saxophone, flute, drums and percussion, and more arcane musical instruments such"
"suggested that the song has only a single ""pariah-like protagonist"" and Lennon was ""painting another sardonic self-portrait"". Lennon played rhythm guitar and sang the lead vocals, Paul McCartney played bass, George Harrison played lead guitar and Ringo Starr played drums. It was produced by George Martin and recorded in late July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios in London. In the intro, Lennon says: ""shoot me"", which is accompanied by his handclaps and McCartney's heavy bass riff. The famous Beatles' ""walrus"" from ""I Am the Walrus"" and ""Glass Onion"" returns in the line ""he got walrus gumboot"", followed by ""he got"
"Vera 8. Admiral Tackett 9. The United Earthlands' Assembly 10. A Dark Thought 11. Abduction 12. Ultimatum 13. Death Of The Herald 1974 (band) 1974 is a cross-over progressive rock band from Newington, Connecticut. The band consists of Mike Forgette (guitar and vocals), Tim Moore (drums and vocals), Gary Dionne (bass and vocals), Adam Clymer (guitar), and Parker Hu (keys and vocals). The band's debut album, ""1974 & The Battle For The Lazer Fortress"", was released in February 2011. The following year, 1974 released two EP's: ""The Return"" and ""A Soldier's Tale"". In 2013, the band released ""1974 & The"
"Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John, with a guest appearance by Lennon, was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada. Most of the song is in simple triple metre ( time), but the chorus is in time. The song modulates between musical keys, using the key of A major for verses, B major for the pre-chorus, and G major for the chorus. It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tambura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Harrison, and"
"The Greatest Hits (Lulu album) The Greatest Hits is a 2003 Lulu album charting her 40-year career in music from 1964's UK top-ten hit ""Shout"" through 2002's ""We've Got Tonight,"" a UK top-five duet with Ronan Keating. It also covers everything in between, including her 1967 US 1 Hit ""To Sir With Love"", the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winner ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"", the 1974 James Bond theme ""The Man with the Golden Gun"", and the 1993 UK No. 1 Hit ""Relight My Fire"" (a duet with Take That). The album combines her UK hits such as ""The Boat That I Row"""
"GoldenEye (song) ""GoldenEye"" is a song performed by Tina Turner, and the eponymous theme song for the 1995 James Bond film, ""GoldenEye"". Released as a single in November 1995, the song was a big chart hit in Europe, topping the Hungarian Singles Chart and reaching the top five in Austria, Finland, France, and Switzerland, as well as number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. It was less successful outside the continent, reaching number 43 in Canada, number 63 in Australia, and number two on the US ""Billboard"" Bubbling Under Hot 100. The song was written by Bono and The Edge"
"gun control measures, opposes military intervention in Syria, and supports fighting climate change. Sheryl Crow Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, and blues. She has released ten studio albums, four compilations, a live album, and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. Her songs include ""All I Wanna Do"", ""If It Makes You Happy"", ""My Favorite Mistake"" and the theme song for the 1997 James Bond film ""Tomorrow Never Dies"". She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Crow has garnered nine Grammy"
"Marietta Waters Marietta Waters is an American singer and most known for her performance of ""Destination Unknown"" on the ""Top Gun"" soundtrack, where she is credited by the stage name Marietta. Her other soundtrack credits include ""By Design"" in the movie ""Perfect"", the title track of the movie ""Fire and Ice"", and ""Thunder and Lightning"" from its sequel, ""Fire, Ice And Dynamite"". ""Fire and Ice"" was released as a single in 1986, reaching #5 in Switzerland and #10 in Germany. She has also recorded several albums with Sérgio Mendes, Berlin, Harold Faltermeyer, and Animotion. Marietta has also recorded backup vocals"
"Get Your Gunn ""Get Your Gunn"" is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released as the lead single from their debut studio album, ""Portrait of an American Family"" (1994). The song was written by the band's eponymous vocalist along with original guitarist and bassist Daisy Berkowitz and Gidget Gein, respectively, and was produced by Manson with Trent Reznor. ""Get Your Gunn"" was inspired by the murder of abortionist David Gunn by a pro-life activist, an event which angered Manson. A gothic rock and hard rock song, the track received a mostly positive response from music critics, who described"
"the Ecstasy of Gold sequence appears briefly. None of these scenes or sequences appear in the 2004 re-release, however, but are in the supplementary features. The score is composed by frequent Leone collaborator Ennio Morricone, whose distinctive original compositions, containing gunfire, whistling (by John O'Neill), and yodeling permeate the film. The main theme, resembling the howling of a coyote (which blends in with an actual coyote howl in the first shot after the opening credits), is a two-pitch melody that is a frequent motif, and is used for the three main characters. A different instrument was used for each: flute"
"Laura Branigan Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1952 – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single ""Gloria"", stayed on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany with the U.S. No. 4 hit ""Self Control"". She also had success in the United Kingdom with both ""Gloria"" and ""Self Control"" making the Top 10 there. Branigan's other singles included the Top"
"released as a single by the UK group, Rain, featuring Stephanie de Sykes as the vocalist. The song, ""Golden Day"", was used as the theme for the TV game show ""The Golden Shot"" and was released as a single on 12 July 1974. A second Ivor Novello Award followed a year later for ""No Honestly"", which was also the theme tune to a hit ITV comedy ""No, Honestly"", and provided her with another UK Top 10 hit. The B-side to this single was de Paul's version of ""Central Park Arrest"", the song she had written for Thunderthighs and which had"
"1974 (band) 1974 is a cross-over progressive rock band from Newington, Connecticut. The band consists of Mike Forgette (guitar and vocals), Tim Moore (drums and vocals), Gary Dionne (bass and vocals), Adam Clymer (guitar), and Parker Hu (keys and vocals). The band's debut album, ""1974 & The Battle For The Lazer Fortress"", was released in February 2011. The following year, 1974 released two EP's: ""The Return"" and ""A Soldier's Tale"". In 2013, the band released ""1974 & The Death Of The Herald"", a follow-up to their debut album which received critical acclaim. 1974 is known for their complex time-signatures, full"
"Johnny Guitar (song) ""Johnny Guitar"" is a song written by Peggy Lee (lyrics) and Victor Young (music) and was the title track of the 1954 film ""Johnny Guitar"" directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford. The music loosely echoes several themes from Spanish Dance No. 5: Andaluza by Enrique Granados, which was written for piano, but is often played on classical guitar. The instrumental for the song is used over the opening credits and throughout the film. The song is played on the piano by Joan Crawford (dubbed) and sung partially at the end by Peggy Lee. The song"
"Get Your Gun ""Get Your Gun"" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Terry Cox. It was released as a single by Zakatek (aka Lenny Zakatek) on Bell Records on 12 October 1973. The b-side was another de Paul and Cox penned song ""Gotta Runaway"". Both sides were produced by de Paul and the strings were arranged by Christopher Gunning and de Paul. It has been described as ""Freaky, bizarre and ultimately interesting and a definite one-off"". A German language version with the title ""Roter Mann"" with German lyrics written by Gunter Gabriel was released in 1974, also"
"The Fastest Guitar Alive The Fastest Guitar Alive is a 1967 American musical comedy film directed by Michael D. Moore and starring singer Roy Orbison in his only starring role as an actor. A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War, with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco in order to help finance the Confederacy's war effort. The film features Orbison performing seven original songs which appeared on his 1967 MGM record album of the"